The Sun. — London, England, 1838-05-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. V-A.SIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE The Earl of B ARRIVALS. A nd Lad eauchamp, in P ortman -square, from Brighton ; Lord Cant y Sondes, i n P ortland-place, from their seat, Lees Court, near erbury ; the Marquis of Camden, in Grosvenor-street, from his scat, the Wilderness, Kent ; Lord and Lady Maynard, in Grosvenor square, nr.raormt.,ttir seat, Euston Lodge, Dunmow, Essex ; Sir Charles Morgan, Pall-mall, from Cheltenham; Lord Strangford, in Harley ;;lllsir L ord from Clifton ; Lord Brabazon, M.P., from Leamington Spa; and Lady Wodchouse, in Hyde -park terrracc, from their scat, .Nlinberley Hall, Wymondham ; Viscount Ebrington, in Spring-gardens, from Castle Hill, Devon ; Sir John Slade, from Cheltenham; the Earl 'lnd ;t untess Leicester, in Arlington-street, from Holkham Hall, Nor_ folk Earl and Countess of Bruce, in Bruton street , from Saven tehy, atLod ge, near Marlborough, Wilts; the Earl and Countess of Mor- Knightsbridge, from a visit to Sir W. and Lady Hargood, at Bath; in.. e Earl and Countess of Kinnoull, in Green-street, from Perthshire; aeduLirllavnidltsCountess of Dunmore, in Grafton-street, from Wilton Stewart, he Karl and Countess of CamPerdown, Mr. Y y, . i y .. n StePliens,from Bath from Brighton; Lady Tarleton, from Cheltenham; tart, re eet,, ra f r r i o s m ; a Continental tour; Sir Thomas Haggerstm e ie l. , gra _ .s i t t r otri his seat in the north ; Sir Charles and Lady Ogle, in B trol l , Wallaceinßond-street, from his acct, Carlton a 1 ' D unbar, " Lord 13, allace a-') C umberland ; Baroness Pereira, from Paris ; Sir William fr om B".ykrnr4 Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Temple West, in Harley. street, R ot , a :". Captain and the Honourable Mrs. Ryder, at Burlington C.l troln their seat in Kent. DEPARTURES. 17 Sir C • from Chapel.street, for Powderham Castle, Devon ; C. and Lady Paget from Burlington-street, for Brighton ; Lady b e a r i k l asi for War wickshire ; the Honourable Augustus Villiers, from tou r , elersquare, for Eglintoun Park, on a visit to the Earl of Eglin -13 art: Captain Peterson. frr.ym Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn.street, for n House Canterbwry ; C. Tempest, Esq., and Miss Tempest, nrGni ditto ' si .. 0, for Broughton Hall; General Destrem, from ditto, for Rua. '" i the Rev. Char1 ............„ cs and M rs. s____.. ._.____....tewart, from ditto, for Ewhur s t. TI M EARL OF SHREWSBURY'S GRAND BANQUET. The p„ ati &truly and Countess of Shrewsbury gave a splendid banquet on b rir , 4 aY last to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Camd •,...'-'te, Prince George, and a select party, including the Duke and s of Somerset, the Duke of Wellington, Prince Odescalchl, (Duke b b SYrrnia) Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Marquis of Breadal ane, Marquis and Marchioness of Carmarthen, Earl of Denbigh, Earl and Conntes, of jersey, Lord and Lady John Somerset, and Miss S - :rnerset, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, and Miss Kerr. In the t v t e , n n i d n ed g her. Ladyship held a brilliant assembly, which was numerously . Among the elite present were :—the Austrian and Russian SardinianAtri bassadors, the Prussian, Saxon, Danish, Neapolitan, Bavarian, and , Ministers Princes N. Esterhazy and P. Lieven, Count and muetintess Pozzo di' forgo, Baroness de Cetto, Count and Countess de °4tgelas, Barons Lebzeltern, Werther, Knesebeek, Romree, &c. &c. boats.--Sorrierset, Wellington, Sutherland, and Argyll. DuctiEssts.--Sornerset, and Dowager Richmond. A 14ARQUI SE7,----SaliSbUr Br eadalbane, Queensbury, Cl anr i car d e, `'n,!_leaeY, ARC!TIO Carmarthe n Y ' , an . il Douro. 'UM Carmarthen . MNESSll9.—Salisbury, B rea d albane, Queensbury, Clanricarde, •„ 1-ladli. aar.si —Denbih, Jersey, C awdor, Carlisle, Clarendon, Tankerville, 4‘Or, *Munster, g Albemarle, Sandwich, Charlemont, and Cowper. tooxrcssas.—Jersey, Clarendon, Tankerville,burnhßadnor, Munster, Albam. emarle, Charlemont, Stanhope, Cowper, Darlington, and A s h. Vlscounrs.—lteresford, Canning, Falkland, Howick, Cantilupe; Glandine, Villiers, Jocelyn, Castlereagh, Burghersh, Emlyn, Levesen, Cornbermere, Norreys, Lismore, Mahon, Drumlanrig, Duncan, and Strangford. ViscooNvessts.—Beresford Canning, Falkland, Howick, Norreys, Dowager Duchess of Dillon, Mahon, and Newark. Lorins.—G, Stuart, Dalmeny, C. Fitzroy, G. Somerset, Petre, E. truce, Blantyre, Bagot, Crewe, Hatherton, Cowley, Ward, Fitzroy Somerset, Radstock, Poltimorc, Ashley, Stuart de Rothsay, and Re desue. LADTES.—E. Bruce, Stuart de Rothesay, Petre, Radstock, Cowley, ~,.I%farYhorough, Poltimore, Ashley, A. Poulett C. Somerset, C. Capel, _ln. Vyner, G. Grey, E. Bulteel, L. Davenport, G. Nevill, Waterpark, It'w, . Stanhope F. Cowper, (two) Ashburnham, H. Bagot, F. Howard, Somerset, G. Bouverie, S. and Caroline Lennox, A. Wilbraham, 'lantyre Fitzroy Somerset, M. Stephenson, and L. Cavendish. Ronounants.—G. Edwards, H. Lambton, Sydney Herbert, G. Cavendish, C. Dundas, G. Wortley, G. Ashley, W. Bagot, and N. C. / ' e ndish. lioxoustaatts.—Mrs. Warrender, Miley, Stuart, Crew, Stanley, Dillon, O'Callaghan, Arden, A. and C. Cavendish, H. and C. Lytti et o , Lambton, Smythe, Mitford, C. and F. Stewart. Silts C. Ogle, G. Shelley, T. Gage, A. Murray, G. W arren d er, E. Antr obus, Grey Egerton, D. G or d on, A. Clifford, G. Conroy, and G. hall. LADIES.—OgIe, Shelley, Antrobus, G. Egerton, D. Gordon, Conroy, Floyd, Fuller, Pechell, and NVilliams. MESSRS.—Hope, E. Stanley, Duff, Darcy, and G. H. Talbot, C. R. Walker, P. Stewart, Gally Knight, W . W ynn, D. Bromley, C. Boothby, Throcmorton, and Towneley. ehope, MrsraEssEs.— O. Cave, G. Knight , R othschild, Canning, and Wau- Mademoiselle d'Este. T he celebrated pianist, Mr. Henry Herz, who has j us t arr i ve d from • tPearis,.dele:ighttd he coralany ;with his pe r f ormance of some of his most ompositions. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. Th e . ________........._ took E, fth Concert for the present season of the Philharmonic Society 1 ., 1 , a ce last night at the Hanover-square Rooms. Mr. F. Cramer eam to " t e leader on the occasion, and the conductor Mr. Neale. N'‘ e sth nsfieee°Misliment the latter gentleman on his ability to fill so arduous or th at La' that whi c h we suppose was thrust upon him in this instance, lent Pe Ile took in hi s turn as a matter of routine. He is a most excel- Piano..frlbrlner on the instillment he professes, no doubt, but mere of t he ;le Practice will not qualify a man to be a conductor. The orchestra very „ hlhartnonie, however, is so good, that a conductor cannot do a con ii , - 0 . : 0 3 , l d eal of harm, if he is at all acquainted with the time of the Beeth o . ,, s e ' °n a at the performance of which he is called upon to preside. 'went tolen'' at in C minor, the opening piece of the Concert, too „ or , rblY Well, with the exception of the violins starting off a bar also Ay ,at the co mmencement. Hurnmel's Benedicins followed, and tett° o e f nt '-ery fa iriY. The next was a manuscript piano -forte Con_and e the same composer, beautifully played by Madame Dulcken, Whieh X / e / iteel verY considerable applause. The Concerto was the last extra() 4.14Mnel himself played at the Philharmonic concerts,. and t collect i r ot ' i na itnpressfon he then made must have been fresh in the re. rattlin of Many persons present. His style was not the mere t appro:. through passages of great difficulty, but might mos . r arely ' lla telY be termed singing on the piano -forte ; a characteristic to be met with in the present day, rapid execution being too are scroll Med at by the present race of players, while taste and expression sen t; n "uslY deemed but a secondary consideration. Mozart's " Pos 4nu ..ettine,,, from ~ "m The Zauberflote," was finely sung by Mr. Phillips, ll inberg's well known Overture in D concluded the first part of the concert. ,iwaysThe second opening, with H aydn ' s Sinfonia, No 7. It is ear these a great treatto h ese sinfonies at th e Philh armon i c, an d th e Present was as 1)04 sung nee hsuperhl Mrs. A. Shaw y played as any of its precursors. song_ t y v en's "Ah perfido." This lady is a favourite of ours, i e s cannot give her (or her advisers) credit on this occasion. The e „ icut and a tenor voice, and was transposed to suit Mrs. Shaw, besides :iLer,aaniidamleutilated. This is a liberty that should be taken with no and directors of tastesoef all with such an one as Beethoven. The managers h concerts must for t r faces „ amainst such irregularities. Aquartethe future set thei and violoncello by Messrs E to of Spohr for two violins, tenor, „.. • E. W. Thomas, Watts, Tolbecque, and Lindley,. a Olin air. Thomas is a good performer, but his tone is of i _. nett, Rossini's duetto, " Ah situ " by Miss Bruce and A r. 4 e n o eutt, was very indifferently sung, and we ' regret we are compelled to rt. gallant as to say the fault was on the lady's side* Cbrehreu roomi . was foil , , Les deux journees," terminated the concert. was in autfer and very warm ; indeed during the quartett the . heat ins ~, le * and a great proportion of the company walked into the adjoin_ "Ins. The concert was long. lii had an int, r , i s R oyal Highness the Duke of Sussex . of cat,,,..." with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Ibisal Mirart's Hotel, yesterday afternoon. h is t, ItovalSussex will give Highness the Duke of . b nird 4 ton 'glace. evening party on Saturday, the 19th inst., at Kensington to- dinner t . rd and Lady Colchester will give a grand 'l'''''' ' ro W, at their ' in C mberland-street, to the Du ch ess .in. she ers new residence tt h, and a dist gni, h of Sutherland, the Dowager Lady Ellenboroug e d Part • LON ). grand banquet give a ~,,,,.. and Lady Clarendon will Duchess of Finther",.l, Aud ley-street on Friday next, to the . Duke and I,,land, Duc hess -Countess of Sutherlant , " e D lof C • the Duke entertained Of w eir uc less annizzaro ° II `n g t ° o , the Marquis of Hertford, and a select party at d inn er Un day ev • • The e vening, in Hanover.square. entertained the Duch Earl and Countess of Wilton , and 4 d ist esa of Beaufort, Lord Stanley, Hon. Mr. Herbert, Mr . . Cary, In GroulgitiThed party, at dinner, on Sunday evening, at their residence,. svenorsquar The Noble Earl anti Countess had a select dinner Party last even' g e. ' The INTaHr'eiioness and Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis Pave ; trived in P ark -crescent from a short continental tour. o„ ile Earl of Westmoreland and his daughter, Lady -e;.BMa Fare, arrived in Grosvenor square yesterday, from Brighton. I_. 0 ord Ward left Mivart's Hotel, on Sunday, for )( ford Yesterday. ni, er sl . tY, w h ere the Noble Lord was to take Isis degree Rov , ,-, i -•,“, k;OLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.-The" even ng tne t.• I,a e.inn,ll for the year terminated last night. A very interesting Per by Mr North, disease, " bronchial polypus,” was tea , , • on a rare form of ro ux __ ' oy Dr. Hawkins, and attracted great attention from a num.- ,issernblage of medical practitioners. Mr EST SUFFOLK.--The election of a Member for 4 e ,.. Western Division of the county of Suffolk, in the room of the late Hart r --418 an took I yesterday, when Mr. Waddington was elected kith ' • . p ace T 1 ut 0....... ° Co e t , sition. . IL kmRoisTATIoN. Yesterday, a deputation from the tradesl44, of London waited on the Marquis of Londonderry, who con- , l ' ec ito take the chair at the meeting to be held on Friday next Her Majesty, attended by the Marchioness of Tavistock, took a drive Yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four in the Parks, Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday with the Queen. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at the New Palace. The company included his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Earl and Countess of Leicester, Viscount and Viscountess Howick, Visco7,-oi. Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Dinorben, Lord Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Th 4 ' ---e n-'. - sia Spring Rice, Miss T .;olland, the Sluing Rice, the Right lion. Edward Ellie", my. and Lady 3laty Ste phenson, and the Hon. Colonel Cave giment of Horse Guards were i • - ddish. The band of the Royal Re. 7. attendance during the dinner. P o ny phaeton and Her Majest y the Q u een ''..Jowager took a carriage drive yesterday in a C'arence heti.' sfc':.r. Her Majesty vi s i ted the Princess Augusta at - ----,- The Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty at Marl borougi:,.. h) ,„ . ~,, 'rhe I l'eke of Sussex and th e P r i ncess Augusta visited the Duke and ..tich,,s, of Cambridge yesterday, at Cambridge-house. Sir John Hobhouse, Sir William Woods, and Mr. Harland, M.P., had nterviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing, -street. The Prussian Minister had an interview yesterday at the Foreign. of f ice. A Deputati on of Scotch Members had an Haute yest erda interview with the Hon. Fox y at the ffice. A Committee meeting of th H e ome-o Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable privy Council was held yesterday in the Council Chamber, to consider th ey harges brought by the House of Assembly of Newfoundland the the Honourable 11. J. Boulton, Chief Justice of that island. T he Lords present were Neeretary the Lord P res i dent, the Lord Chancellor, the ')f . Q of State for the C o l on i es, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court ueen's Bench, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. The Honourable W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting, Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard on the part of Mr. Boulton, i n answer to the charges. Dr. Lushington was heard in reply —Their Lordships then adjourned. May 1 I, at the Freemason's Tavern, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen and the two Houses of Parliament, to avert the calamitous losses that must fall upon the trade of the metropolis, should the Coronation take place earlier than August. The Noble Marquis expressed hi; willingness to preside, in the flail understanding that the meeting teas to be considered as embracing a national and not a party purpose. The d ePutatinr. consisted of Messrs. J. Gould, Dinneford, Scott, Barwise. Clarke, Fisher, &c., an d was most courtoously re ce i ved b 7 the Noble Marquis, • We regttt , the death of D r . Ed war d Harristili; tiffroili.,s-street, Cavendish-square, which took place yester day et Marlbrrough, on his way to Devizes, to visit an old and sick friend. In him the community has sustained an irreparable loss. Tie may be said to have been a true and consistent patriot, and really be nevolent man. It will be universally admitted that the words of a sacred writer of the last centu:y may strictly and justly be applied to him :—" He was superior to fear, to selfish interest, and corrupt means —one whose mind was ever regulated by princip'es of the strictest rec. titude and integrity —one who was true to the God he worshipped, and unostentatiously fixed on the faith he professed ; full of affection and charity to his brethren of every class ; kind and faithful in his friend ship ; forgiving and generous to his enemies ; warm and csmpassionate to the unfortunate ; seTtdenying to his private interests, and prodigal alone to those of the public —a man who possessed magnanimity without pride, humility without meanness ; who was just to all men, withou t being harsh to any; simple in manners, but manly in feeling ; on whose word all men might rely; whose countenance would never deceive, being the index or a benevolent heart, from which nothing but kindness ever emanated ; such a character as one would choose for a superior, trust as a friend, and love as a fellow-man." His benevolence, although discriminating, was almost boundless. Nearly 100 poor and afflicted persons will lose a kind and constant benefactor. Among the many liberal gifts in the cause of humanity which adorned his career is one of 3001. to the North London Hospital, and the more munificent and rare gift of 1,0001. to the establishment of an Infirmary for Spinal Com_ plaints, in which disease he had himself performed some extraordinary cures, to which the medical works of the last few years have borne testimony. May his rest be as peaceful as his life was blameless ; may the balm of resignation sooth the hearts of those who enjoyed his friend ship and love; and may they cease to think his death untimely, when they reflect that on the wide face of creation every being who knew him revered his worth and will cherish his memory. SHOCKING AFFAIR. —On Wednesday afternoon, a man named Stewart, residing in St. Leonard-street, Edinburgh, at tempted to commit suicide with a deliberation and forethought which, perhaps, in the annals of those melancholy cases will find few parallels. It appears that Stewart had obtained a piece of wood, which he con. trived to manufacture into a rude but effective imitation of a gun, or a small cannon, by boring it for a short way with some instrument or other, of sufficient calibre to admit an ordinary pistol bullet. He had formed a touch-hole by the same means, and on Wednesday, about two o'clock, in the absence of his daughter, he loaded this rude instrument of death with a bullet, and placing it on the table, and his head on a level with its muzzle, he fired it by means of a match or some other combustible. The bullet lodged in his head, which is dreadfully Ant tered.—Edinburgh Advertiser. The Merchants, Manufacturers, Capitalists, and Landholders, in the neighbourhood of Silkstone and Barnsley are seek ing to connect their coal-fielda with Sheffield and Manchester, in one direction, and with the Humber in another. They propose to join the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, near Penistone, and forming a line to Goole. As now situated, Basnsley is let out of the railway communica tion, but the measure projected will enable her to transmit her minera treasures in every direction—to the London market, as well as to the manufacturing districts of Manchester and Sheffield.—Derby Reporter A HINT TO M.P.'s.—When Sir Isaac Coffin we into Parliament, Lord St. Vincent said to him, " Now be sure you never bring forward any motion but upon the most solid information, and a moral certainty of support."—Brenton's Life of St. Vincent. Two or three young merchants, in a frolic planned and carried into execution the abduction of one of Governor Picton's sheep; and, determined to do the thing well, selected the fattest one nursed in his stable. A noble dinner was provided, the initiated sworn to secrecy, and all passed off gloriously. Two of these wags called upon his Excellency a day or two after to transact business, which being effected he turned to them in his own peculiar manner and said—" Gen tlemen, I hope the mutton was tender." They were astounded. This anecdote was communicated to me by an officer then commanding a regi. ment, who was one of the gentlemen sheeplifters.— United Service Journal. JONATHAN OUTDONE.--PARIS, MAY f2.—l con gratulate you on the change in the weather. Its effect on vegetation was - proved to me to-day, I was sitting in the Cafe Paris, giving a breakfast to a new arrival, when the room became dark. I called to the garcon to open the Per:lens. " They are open, Monsieur." " What the devil makes the room so dark then ?" " The trees, Sir, w hi c h h ave burst into leaf s i nce you sat down. " The four officers of the 3d Dragoon Guards, Lieu tenants Nugent and Warner, and Cornets Rich and Freeman, who were a few weeks since convicted before the Magistrates of this borough for an assault on the police, have been under an arrest ever since; and last week Lieutenant -General Sir Charles Dalbiac attended at our barracks, and took the examination of the party who had prosecuted them. It is supposed they will continue " in durance vile" until further orders from the Horse Guards.—Ssufolk Chronicle. Mr. Bates, now of Hull, but lately of Huntingdon, was much surprised on Wednesday week by receiving a parcel, forwarded to him from his late abode, and containing five small packets, each en closing ten sovereigns. In explanation of this gift was a slip of paper, requesting Mr. Bates to accept themoney as a token of gratitude for fa vours done thirty years since. Mr. Bates has no recollection of having performed anything calling forth this testimony of gratitude, and has determined on laying out the money upon plate to commemorate the cir. cumstance.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. As a proof of the backwardness of the season, many of the hay farmers near London are now, in the month of May, bush_ harrowing and rolling the meadows, which in a forward season would be nearly ready for the sithe. LORD OSSULSTON'S STAG HOUNDS.—On Tues day last, after a fast run of an hour, the stag jumped over a precipice and bloke his neck. The hounds were at this time close to his haunches, and unfortunately a couple and a half of the leading dogs went over with the stag. Two of the hounds were so hurt that thay could not move, and the third was found by the green coat first up lying on the dead deer—a beautiful sight for the pencil of an artist to pourtray, but a painful one for the eye of a sportsman to behold. OLD SPORTSMAN.—Sir George Hewitt, who has attained the great age of ninety-three, joined the Queen's stag hounds last week, with all the ardour of early days, and was in at the death. The Chelmsford Chronicle contains an account of the examination of a Mrs. Harris, at Witham Petty Sessions, on a charge of having boiled a cat alive. This cruelty arose out of an igno. rant and superstitious idea that it would enable her to find out some Gipsies who had tricked her out of some property on pretence of making her rich if furnished with the means of working certain spells for the purpose. The Magistrate ordered Mrs. Harris to pay the full penalty of 40s. and costs, and 10s., the value of the cat, and in default of pay ment she was committed to the House of Correction for fourteen days. She did not deny the charge, but said she was so irritated at the time that she should have put her own hand into the boiling water if she had thought it would have had any effect. The Augsburg Gazette, in alluding to the probabi lity of the Emperor of Russia coming after all, when he is least expected into Prussia, observes that this is a common thing with his Imperial Majesty, whe travels in this way in order to take the authorities of his own dominions by surprise. His suite usually comprises six carriages, which can be distinguished from each other only by their numbers ; and it is almost impossible to tell in which the Emperor is. At the late meeting of the Swansea Philosophic Society, it was stated by the president, that the anchovy fish is plentiful, and caught in large quantities in Swansea and Oxwich Bays. If this statement be correct, it is to be hoped that an establishment for taking and curing the fish will be formed, and doubtless, a lucrative branch of trafic to Swansea will be the result.—Hereford Journal. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 12.—The news of the victories of Soliman Pacha (the well-known renegade Sevis) is con. firmed by several letters from Aleppo. It is believed that Ibrahim Pacha will now carry into effect the plan of making Bagdad tributary to him. He is said to have many partisans in that rich and populous city who are ready to support him. It is impossible to calculate to what lengths the possession of Bagdad might carry the enterprising spirit of the Egyptian commander. For the Porte it would be a deathblow. Here the anxiety is great; a crisis seems to be at hand. Under these circumstances a new organisation of the Administration seems the more injudicious, as it impedes the public business of Government. With all the great qualities that the Sultan must be allowed to possess, he con. tributes the most to increase the difficulties in which the Porte is in volved. He violently pulls down, but rebui'ds slowly and feebly, and but too well proved by the creation of the new Council, that he does not know how to manage the machinery of modern polities.—Allgemeine Zeitung, May 7. THE ALBUM PE RSECUTION. —Lamb, in one of his letters to Barry Cornwall, writes as follows I have another favour to try, which is the beggarliest of all beggings. A few lines of verse for a young friend's album (six will be enough). Mr. Burney will tell you who she is. I want them for a girl of gold. Six lines— make them eight—signed Parry C--. They need not be very good, as I chiefly want them as a set off to mine. But I shall be seriously obliged by any newspaper scrap. We are in the last ages of the world, when St. Paul prophesied that women should be headstrong, lovers of their own will, having albums.' I fled hither to escape the Albumean persecution, and had nct been in my new house twenty-four hours when the daughter of the next house came in with a friend's album to beg a contribution, and the following day intimated that she had one of her own. Two more have sprung up since. If I take the wings of the morning and fly into the uttermost parts of the earth there will be albums. New Holland has albums, but the age is to complied with." THE WILL OF MR. WOOD.—The Town-council of Gloucester at their last 'meeting voted that 156/. be paid to Mr. Wilton, to reimburse him for money actually paid out of his pocket in opposing Mr. Wood's will being allowed probate in the Prerogative Court; but they came to a resolution that all further proceedings must be paid out of Mr. Wilton's own pocket, as the codicil would not be op. posed. —Gloucester Herald. DYSPEPSIA.—The greater number of persons af flicted with dyspepsia are to be found among care-worn speculators, stock. brokers, and ardent students, or among those whose nervous system has, by injudicious education, been too greatly developed, and rendered readily excitable. There can be no doubt that sedentary habits concur with mental excitement in Producing thin disease; but exercise derives much of its utility to them by determining the blood from the head to the extremities. So long as excessive mental excitement in kept up, but little relief can be obtained by the strictest attention to dietetics. Ab. stinence from mental toil, cheerful company, a country excursion, and relaxation of mind, will soon accomplish a cure, where all the dietetic precepts and medicines in the world would prove inefficacious.—Har risen Curtis on Preservation of Health. HIDDEN TREASURE. --On Friday, as some work men were employed in pulling down an old house in St. Margaret's. street, Rochester, belonging to Mr. Hedgcock, grocer, one of them found in the brickwork of the chimney a wash leather bag, containing 158 pieces of silver coin, of various sizes and thicknesses, some of them being no bigger than a sixpence, and others as broad as a half-crown. Some of them are of the reign of Philip and Mary, bearing the date 1554 ; others bear the names o f E lizabeth, James, Edward VI., and Charles ; and the weight of the whole is one pound and a half. The bag is as fresh in colour and appearance as when it was first deposited in the place, in which it must have been concealed for near two hundred years . Inside the bag is a small pocket, probably intended as a recepta cle f o r gold. The workman who found it very honestly delivered it to Mr. Hedgcock, wino, as soon as lie has ascertained the value of the coin, intends rewarding him accordingly. — n , entish Observer. STATE OF TRADE.—The improved feeling noticed in our last has been, fully maintained co nsiderable purchases have been freely making in both piece goods and ; yarns at the previous low rates, which, however, we believe are not remunerating either the manufacturer or spinner, and little progress has, as yet, been effected in the way of advance ; but if the present improvement be based upon a real increased consumption, this desideratum will no doubt follow, and in its train a greater supply of work and on better terms, for the la bourer, particularly that depressed the class, the hand-loom weavers.-- Preston Observer. The plaintiff in two of the bribery actions, Lewis t). Harwood the younger, and Lewis v. Widgery, h as b een arrested for the costs, l custodyad for the same. It remains to be seen whe. then the and i s pp now in the victim, riskin g th e consequences which pu et is to be threaten those who pulled the strings.—Bristol Mercury. THE stfN, LoMnoi4‘, 'MAY A, 18v. STRAND b lON, TO THE EDITOR Oi THE SUN. Sirt,—Perceiving in 'your paper of this evening a letter from Mr. Mitchener, the Auditor of the Strand Union, in which it is stated, " that objections of a frivolous and vexatious nature were made at the last audit, and such as the auditor had never before experienced," I feel that such a statement is calculated to give a very erroneous impres sion to the public of What did actually occur. The fact is, Sir, the ob jections made arose mainly out of a refusal, on the part of the clerk and the auditor, to exhib it to the rate.paye rs th e bill s, the amounts of which were entered in th e /edger, but the yrartie n iq rs o f whi c h the rate-payers were wholly ignorant of, thoug h Called Upon by the auditors and clerk to object to them before the auditor would produce them. Another ob. the clerk to a n y rate payer copying or extracting jection Was ::Y en b y from any bill laid i i- vr „ i; him for inspection, and the auditor distinctly concurred therein, The detail of these proededings has been ernt;,:l ied in a memorial, and forwarded to the Commissioners, who 3 n some of t h eir , orders had directed the clerk to produce all vouchers ; but have in their recent ones, directed the ledger and quarterly abstract only to be laid before the rate-payers. As an advocate fora great portion of the Poor-law Amendment Act, and for an improved system of administration of the laws relating to the poor, I cannot but regret, seeing there nothing to conceal, that any difficulty should be thrown In the way of a full examination of the Union accounts, by any rate-payers who may take an interest in their details ; the more especially, as it is an acknowledged principle among Reformers, that publicity in public accounts is a sure guarantee against profligate expenditure. A PAST OVERSEER AND RATE-PAYER OF THE STRAND UNION. Covent-garden, May 7, 1838. CANAL NAVIGATION BY STEAM TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. FIR—. 4 WAS strtrelc by reaiii;ga:Te;ClaWagoinWie STtnEileiter signed " A Canal Proprietor," calling On canal proprietors to bestir themselves in the race of competition with liailteays, That such a sentiment should be published, by one belonging to a set of capitalists who hither to have remained ima sort of monopolizing torpidity, indulging in the dream that mechanical science would aid them without any rectard offered from themselves, is at least an omen that they may still be awakened to increase their own property by a little liberality. In order that the public may derive the advantage of travelling by canals at the rate of twelve miles per hour, (to accomplish which, with out the slightest injury to the banks, by swell or washing, the writer of this is prepared with an original invention; for the success of which he would answer with his head if required); it would be necessary that a certain toll, to be paid for by passengers, should be openly declared by the canal proprietors, in payment of which the patentee should be ad.. mitred to the right of navigation. Had such an ascertained right of navigation been ever offered by canal owners to the public, on approval of invented steamers, without any other stimulus, we should have seen in this a successful competition in Lancashire and Westmoreland, on their excellent canals, with present railways, in cheapness, pleasure, and convenience, in extraordinary, but, in many cases, useless and expensive speed. Canals, of course, could not compete. Your obedient servant, INVENTOR. The writer intends to include a quick passage of locks in the above rate of twelve miles per hour. COFFEE-HOUSE-KEEPER'S ASSO CIATION. LICENSING OF COFFEE-HOUSES. A very numerous Meeting of the Coffee-house Keepers was held last night at Anderton's Hotel, to take into consideration the resolutions of the Middlesex Magistrates relative to the licensing of Coffee-houses, and to adopt measures thereon. Mr. MARSHALL was unanimously called to the Chair. The requisition and advertisement in The Sun calling the Meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN opened the business by stating that this meeting was called together to take into their most serious consideration a great and important change which it was contemplated by the Magistrates, with the sanction of the Legislature, to make in their business, and he trusted that every person present would set aside all selfish feeling on this question, and view it as one affecting the general interests and respec tability of the trade, and the comfort and accommodation of the pub lic. For his own part he considered that any interference of the Ma. gistrates with the trade would be an evil; but certain resolutions were prepared to be submitted to the Meeting, and he hoped the several speakers, whether for or against those resolutions, would be quietly listened to. Mr. ELLtorr moved the first resolution, and in doing so, he begged to state, that his firm conviction was, that this proceeding of the Middle.. sex Magistrates was but the beginning of an evil, of which no one knew where it would end, and he considered it was best to oppose this un called-for Interference of those Functionaries in the bud, for were they tamely to submit to this first aggression, those Worthies would never rest till they had them bound hand and foot, like the Licensed Victual. lers. He begged to move this resolution :- 1. " That this meeting learn with great alarm and regret the inten. tion of bringing into Parliament, a Bill founded on the resolutions of the Middlesex Magistrates, for the purpose of Licensing Coffee Houses." Mr. HARE briefly seconded the resolution ; and on The Cow ImstAN putting the question, Mr. MORGAN rose, not to oppose the resolution, as he was against the Licensing System, as well as keeping open all night, but he hoped that nothing in the resolutions to be submitted to the Meeting would prevent them from applying in the proper quarter for permission to open an hour or two earlier in the morning in the neighbourhood of markets, for the convenience of those who arrived from the country, and which permission he considered would answer every purpose, both for the pub lic and Coffee.house Keepers. The SECRETARY assured him that there was nothing to prevent such an application ; and the resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. BINMORE proposed the next resolution, and he cordially agreed with It in every respect, as he was convinced that any measure founded on those resolutions of the Middlesex Magistrates would be highly in. juriotts to the Cofree-house.keepers, and likewise greatly interfere with the comfort of the sober part of the public; for what respectable man would like to enter a Coffee.house in the morning and find himself seated vis-a-vis to a person half drunk, and fast asleep ? Coffee-houses at pre. sent were of real service to the public, and promoted the cause of morality and temperance; but he was convinced that such a measure as that contemplated would be the means of counteracting whatever good had been accomplished ; and for those reasons he would most strenuously oppose any such measure. He concluded by moving the following re. solution : 2. " That this Meeting considers, that those resolutions, if carried into operation by Act of Parliament, will be injurious to the Coffee house keepers, and greatly interfere with the comforts and accommoda tion of the public." Mr. MARTIN seconded the resolution; and after some remarks from several of the gentlemen present, all deprecating any interference with the trade, it was unanimously carried. them to a with be them, o pea allby license a and dtemperate he Mr. HARE, in an able and eloqueut speech, moved 3. " That Coffee-houses, as at present conducted, ar e p ecu li arly adapted for supplying the wants of the middle and working clas ses , i n a cheap a ; s e n c d i t ally b a y n y a i l t l i a t , e v r i f n e g r n t h ce night), will only tend to lower their respectability, to enc ourage v i ce a otrv,iso , manner (more and immorality, without adding to the comfort and convenience of the public." He said that Coffee-houses had been within the last few years rising rapidly in the estimation of the public; that their usefulness was now appreciated; and that the Middlesex Magistrates, from a restless desire to be intermeddling, had now taken the first step towards lowering them in the opinion of the respectable part of the public, and of making them (as they would eventually become, if this measure were carried) re ceptacles for persons of the worst character; and after detailing the many evils that were sure to arise from such a measure, he concluded by moving the resolution, which Mr. FORBES seconded, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. ELLicorr !mired, and Mr. BATLY seconded, " 4. That this Meeting Pledge themselves to oppose by every means in their power the passing of any Bill founded on those Resolutions, or containing any such enactments ; and that petitions be prepared and presented to both Houses of Parliament for that purpose." This resolution was carried unanimously. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman the Meeting adjourned to Monday the 21st inst. ST. JAMES ' S THEATRE.—There were two novel ties at this theatre last night. The first was an operatic burletta, called Cosimo, said to be adapted from the French, with music by M. Prevost. The merit of the piece, dramatic or musical, is by no means great. The plot (such as it is) turns upon the assumption by a bricklayer's l a b ourer of the disguise of a prince, and the cool impude nce w i t h which he con_ trives to support the character and mystify the people about hi m ; and Oxberry's grotesque acting of the part produced some amuse men t ; b ut this was all. The other characters were nil. Miss Rainforth was s t uc k into the piece for the purp o se of singing a few airs; for the ch arac t er she personated had not the slightest connection with the plot. The piece was coldly received. The other novelty was much better, and much more successful. It was a little farce in one Act, called The British Legion. Three young ladies, sisters (personated by Mrs. Honey, Miss Williams, and Miss J. Mordaunt) have each a lover serving in Spain. The soldiers return home; but, before they see their mistresses, their t servant (a bit of a wag) persuades the girls that their lovers h ave re . igmetivei lostmeet ateg; an arm, and an ey e , i n th e serv i ce. The damsels determine their swains in disguise, in order to learn the truth of the report; and the gentlemen, aware of their intention, pretend to have suffered these mutilations ; this gives occasion to several whimsical scenes. This little piece was greatly applauded, and promises to have a run. I —lt is singular to find the choice collections of the Bourbons and of Buonsparte, the chefs d'ceuvre of the workmen of France, made to adorn the palaces of the great King, exposed for saleby the ham mer in O xford -street. Such, however, is the fact, and the humblest born man in Britain, if he have acquired gold by his labour, may to. morrow make hi mse lf t h e mas t er o f t h e curtains that adorned Buona. parte's roo m, of the superb clock that warned Louis IVth of the fleeting of time at Versailles, and the tapestry that reminded the Bourbons when placed on th e t h rone of Spain of the rich and grave humour—by a repre sentation of th e exploits of Don Qu i xote—of the people over whom they had come to reign from a foreign country. These splendid speci_ and mens of thr ee of the most renowned manufactures of France—silk, gold, tapestry, at their b es t p er i o d s — ar e all to be sold to- morrow by Oxen ham; to any Lond o n c i t i zen w h o c h ooses t o sa y th a t h e h as purc h ase d articles which weremade for Kings. To be duly apprech,ted, however, they must be seen; we caneot describe them. A New Series of " Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons," is announced to be published in a few days. All those who have perused Mr. Grant's former volumes, will look with much interest to the appearance of this Second Series, for the number of new Members in the present Parliament is such as to afford a most extensive field for the exercise of this author's talent for describing faithfully and graphically whatever has fallen under his observation. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, a desperate attempt at suicide was made by a gentleman, apparently about 80 or 90 years of age, near the sheet of water at the back of Kensington-palace. For. tunately Shearlock, a police constable of the A division, was on duty in the gardens ; and the gardener having some suspicion of the intentions of the individual, arrived in time, it is believed, to prevent a fatal re sult ; but not before the gentleman had inflicted a severe wound on his throat with a knife. A hurdle was procured, and Shearlock, with other assistance, conveyed him to St. George's Hospital, where the wound was dressed, and is not considered of a very dangerous charac ter. Upon inquiry at the hospital last night, it was ascertained that the gentleman, who is unable to speak English, alleged that the only cause he had for attempting self-destruction was, that lie was tired °fins life, and was in his 94th year. The gardener had some difficulty in wresting the knife from his hands. He persists in concealing his name. On Sunday afternoon, as some boys were amusing themselves near Chalk Farm by riding in th'7,. - - "utside the railroad, one of them, a very fine' Stewart Butt, who lived street, Somers-town run over the low manner. lir London 14 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' 6 YElirigllDA I. The room was very fully attended, but business etas not so brisk as recent events at Newmarket and the near argroaeb of the Derby led us t 0 expect, 9r9 , NeintislindPficel.itts shit occupy the leadiml, stations in the herby betting, tnc Gres' m considerable favour at diminished odds, the9ther remaining in as he finished idst we e k, an e very feebly gitpOdtted: , Cobh a matened i at 10 to 1, wa s a f terwards backed at a point l ie;s tOr 160/:, and at the 616:g of the day was not in any particular request. Young RowtOted ftieildi 11# q go lukewarm that we can Only quote the nominal odds against him, and the ad vance of Cobham put Nonplus on the ;bell for the present. A trifle was laid out on ion, at 14 10 1 4 and sev e r a l b e t s taken a'o, - ;;;!. D'Egville, first at 20 and afterwarcia alt 16 to I pitied by th e feeling displayed, we should say that he is likely to take a still higher ground before the day. Bullion, Conservator, and th e Early Bird are quoted at the highest prices we heard offered—we are not aware that either was backed outright.. 2,000 to 60 was backed against Drum-Major, but as 1,000 to 20 was afterwards laid, we have thought it safest to give the highest quotation. The Oaks was very dull affair; Ninny and Brown Duchess have sprung a point or two each, owing, no doubt, to the signal defeats sustained by Unique, Glenara, the Fairy Queen, &c., having materially weakened the field. The following statement comprises pretty nearly all that was said or done from three till half-past six o'clock THE DERBY. 400 to 110 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus—take 4 to 1 6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Phoenix—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. H. Coombes's Cobham—taken and aft. offered 10 to l agst Mr. Bland's Young Rowton—offered 13 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt—offered 14 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken and afterwards offered 18 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Beggarman—taken and aft. off. 20 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—offered 20 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Bullion—offered 30 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Conservator—offered 35 to 1 agst Sir J. Mills's Volunteer—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Worrall's Dormouse—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Alemdar—offerod 40 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—offered 40 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Richard Roe—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. A. Smith's Cracker 50 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Alonc Adam—taken 50 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amato—taken 50 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Chymist--offered 50 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards's Drum-major—taken 1000 to 12 agst Mr. Bowes's Jagger—taken 1000 to 12 agst Mr. Lambden's Dromedary—taken 1000 to 12 agst Mr. J. Day's Brother to Aleppo—taken 1000 to 25 agst Lord Chesterfield's Bretby—taken 2200 to 1600 on Grey Momus apt Young Rowton and Cobham—taken 2000 to 1000 on Conservator agst Amato—taken 500 even laid between Conservator and Alemdar A five pound note was given for choice of Young Rowton agst. Nonplus. The Duke of Grafton has consented to give up John Day to Lord G. Bentinck for this race. THE OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Barcarolle--taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Yespertilio—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's Ninny—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Brown Duchess—taken 10 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Callisto—take 11 to 1 12 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Mary Gray—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Rowton dam filly—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's The Fairy Queen—taken Offers to take 20 to 1 about Mr. Forth's The Soldier's Consort. A correspondent says that the evening betting on the Derby and Oaks will commence the week before the races at the Grand Hotel, Covent-garden, where apartments are in preparation. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, MAT s.—On Wednesday last the Rev. George Elwes Conic, 8.D., Fellow and Tutor of Catherine Hall, in this University, was elected Norrisian Professor of Divinity, in the room of the Vene rable Archdeacon Hollingworth, resigned. On Wednesday, the 25th ult., the Rev. Edward Thomas Vaughan, M.A., of Christ College, in this University, was elected a Foundation Fellow of that Society; and on Tuesday last, Alfred Horatio Darley, M.A. of the same College, was elected a Fellow, upon the Finch and Baines Foundation. At a Congregation on Wednesday last. the following Degrees were conferred : MASTER OF ARTS—Samuel Stephenson Greatheed, and John Coope , Fellows of Trinity; Robert French Burnett, and Martin Dunn, Tri nity ; Robert More 'White, St. Peter's; Samuel Ashby, Pembroke; Wm. Rogers, Catharine Hall; John Nathaniel Micklcthwait, Fellow of Magdalen; Charles Lisle March Phillipps, Magdalen. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW—James Gwatkin Cochrane, Trinity. BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Richard Pelham Warren, William Wyatt Smythe, and James Cookson, Trinity; George Nicholas Gray Lawson, John Methuen Gipps, and Caleb Williams, St. John's; Pelham Mait land, St. Peter's; William Cumming Nagle, and Francis Hill Sewell, Caius ; John Aubone Cook, Corpus Christi; John Williams Maher, Samuel Gall, and John Sawer, Queen's; Richard Duncan Mackintosh, Catharine Hall; Robert Lawson, Jesus; Charles Smith. Magdalen; Joshua Rundle Watson, Magdalen ; and Walter Peck, Emmanuel. At the same congregation John Frederic Stanford, 8.A., of Christ's College, was elected a travelling bachelor on the Worts' foundation. The following graces also passed the Senate : To appoint Mr. Browne, of Emmanuel Collego, an examiner for Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholarships, in the place of the professor of Arabic. To authorise the Vice-Chancellor to take and act upon the advice of the University counsel, in order to the obtaining of a faculty for certain sittings in the nave, galleries, and pews of the Church of St. Mary the Great, appropriated to the University under a decree granted in the year ISI 9, by the Chancellor of the Diocese of Ely, with the concurrence of the parishioners; the parishioners having authorised the entering of a caveat against the completion of the faculty then decreed. DußnAst, May 3.—At a Convocation holden on Thursday, April 23, the following persons who had kept the requisite number of Terms and passed the necessary examinations, were admitted to the degree of B. A. :—Joseph Henry Sutton, Robert Beauchamp Tower, and John B lair. The following were also nominated by the Warden and approved by Convocation Rer. Henry Jenkyns, M.A., Professor of Greek ; the Rev. Temple Chevallier, 8.D., Professor of Mathematics; the Rev. Edward Churton, M.A., Christ Church, Oxford; to be Examiners at the public examination in Theology in the present year. The Rev. C. T. Whitley, M.A., Junior Procter; the Rey. William Palmer, M.A., Magdalen College, Oxford; John Thomas, B.C.L. ; Thomas Leigh Claughton, Trinity College, Oxford, to be Examiners at the ensuing examination for the degrees of B. A. and M.A. K INGSTON -UPON-HULL ELECTION (From Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) House informed, that the Committee have determined, that William Wilberforce, Esq., is not duly elected a Burgess to serve in the present Parliament for the said Borough • that William Hutt, Esq., is duly . elected and ought to have been returned a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the said Borough that Sir Walter Charles James, Ba ronet, is duly elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the said Borough : that the petition of Frank Rawson and others did not appear to the Committee to be frivolous or vexatious : that the opposi_ tion to the said petition did not appear to the Committee to be frivolous or vexatious. That the Committee have altered the Poll taken at the said E lection by striking of the names of Matthew Griswood, John Hodgso n, William, Holmes, Robert Graham, John North, William Jackson, Sam ue l Wal_ ton, William Bayley, John Ncwmarsh, Robert Young, William Coates, John Jennings, Thomas Fryer, John Westerdale, John Wright, Robert ' Wright, Thomas 'Watson, James Healas, William Baker, George G ould, Edward Stevenson, senior, William Cooper, John Savage, Wi lliam ' Rhodes, John Appleby, Jacob Sissons, John Tasker, John Headl y, Wit. Liam Watson, John Shepherd Dunn, Stephen Pratt, James H oddall' Erie Cherry, John Noble Wharton, Robert Headly, Wi lliam Oliver John Newton, Charles Simpson, William Ablet, James Goddard, J ohn ' Robinson, Edward Ayre, Richard Davis, John Percival, Edward Thompson, William Baylis, senior, William Baylis, junior, Aaron John son, John Willingham, William Burton, senior, William Burton,ju n i or Richard Galley, Samuel Cavil], John Tall, Robert Lee, George Y oung , Robert Tadman, James YE al Grover, John Wilson, Thomas Latus, Wit . : T Liam Johnson, Thomas Freebody, Walter Wilberforce, Croft,Thomeasiunior: Robert Thorley, George Leng, Henry Spendlove, Robert Le William Bores, Timothy Hudson, John Woodford Scorgee, Aaron B a t dock, James Longhorn, John Bradbury, Thomas Digby, Henry Master_ man, William Browne, William Wheldale, Thomas Maw, J ames Lloyd, John Hall, Charles Emmanuel Leuty, William Wilkinson, Joh n Allen, as not having had a right to vote at the said Election. And by adding the names of John Hollett, John Smith, Richard Crossby Mowbray, Robert Wright, John Wright, Edward Stainbank, Daniel Oxtoby, William Wilkinson, Joseph Wilson, Robert Hudson, as having had a right to vote at the said Election :—To be entered in the Journals. Clerk of the Crown to attend to-morrow and amend the Return P.r the Borough of Kingston-upon.llull, by raging out the name of Wil. Ham Wilberforce, Esq., and inserting the name of William Hutt, Esq., instead thereof. MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET. (From the Morning Papers of this day.) MORNINU POST.—The city correspondent of a morning paper who undertakes from time to time to enlighten his readers respecting the affairs of the Bank of England continues to show his disappointment at the non-verification of the assurances he gave them some months' ago, to the effect that there would be a reduction in the dividend, thereby causing many credulous persons to sell their stock at a sacrifice of from sto 7 per cent. At the conclusion of his remarks on the monthly averages for the quarter just ended he is pleased to say . " A good deal of stress was laid last month by the organs of the Bank of England on the increase in the Rest of 40,000/., as it neany covered the amount taken from the surplus capital for the dividend upon Bank Stock ; but as there is now a decrease of 33,000/. it will be amusing to see what they will say upon the subject." The " organs of the Bank" may with truth observe, in reply to this unreflecting statement, that the average of the Bank Rest, published in the Gazette of Friday evening last, so far from showing a falling off i❑ that item, as insinuated, is again even more favourable than the pre. ceding one. On the last occasion of publishing the Bank accounts it is to be recollected that, although the Rest exhibited an increase of 40,0001 on the March average, no deduction had been made of the sum required for the payment of the dividend, namely, 42,000/. That amount has now, however, been appropriated to the object alluded to, and, as the diminution for the month is only 35,000/., the proprietary may be fairly considered as having, on the average principle, added 7,000/. to their reserved fund since the publication of the April return. Our contemporary will thus perceive bow easy it is, where there is no purpose to serve but that of communicating correct information to the public to dispose of a fallacy of the nature of that which is conveyed, or intended to be conveyed, in the short passage we have just quoted. MORNING HERALD.—WC ColltillUC without the slightest intelligence from abroad at all interesting to our commercial readers, and the Money Market, so far as regards commercial purposes, continues to wear a very monotonous appearance. The difficulty of employing money profitably in commercial dealings, to which we have unfortunately been compelled so often to revert, has induced capitalists to make some investments in money stock to-day, and also in time bargains. In consequence there has been rather more ac tivity in the British Stock Market, and Consols have closed at the im proved quotation of 93a to tbr money and time. In the heavier secu rities there has also been some business, and the Three-and-a-that( per Cents. Reduced are firm at 1001 to ; the new Three-and.a.Half ler Cents. have advanced to 1011 to 1 1 . Bank Stock rules between 205 and 204 k for money, and at 205 for time. India Stock is 2.701 money. The premium upon the unfunded debt rules at 73. India &Inds are 60 prem. MORNING ,ADVERTISER.—A good deal of business has been doing again to-day in the Asphalte shares. Those of Claridge's Patent are quoted at 13 premium ; the Liverpool at 2i premium ; and the Polon. ceau, which were issued to-day, at 2to 24 premium. The Railway Shares are not in very good demand. The Edinburgh and Glasgow have improved to 1 premium. The Great Western ruched 30i in the morning, but left off at-25 '29i- premium ; the London and Birmineh at 85 premium; the Brighton at 1/ premium; and the " and Birmingham at, lg premium. The shares of tt - Fund bear a'premiuin of to poor PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. EDINBOI?G/I AIV.b GLASGOW RAILWAY BILL. (From the Votes and Prottidiiigs of the Honig of Commons.) MONDAY, Ittiiir 7. Read third time ; Clause granting Compentatitiri id the Trustees of the Stirling Roads, brought up, and read a first tithe Motion made and Question proposed, " That the clause be now read a second time :"—Debate arising, Motion made, and Question put, " That the Debate be adjourned till Thursday :"—The House divided : AIINORITY—AYES, 57. Atwood, W.—Greenwich Maunsell, T. P —Northamptr , nshire Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Miles, William—Somersetshire Bewes, T —Plymouth Mordaunt , Sir John—Warwickshire Blewitt, Reginald—Monmouth Owen, Sir J.—Pembrokeshire 'trotherton, J.—Salford Parker, Montagu—Devon C trtwright, Wm. R.—South Nor- Parker, R. T.—Preston thamptonshire Patten, J.'Wilson—Lancashire Codrington, C. W.—Gloucestershire'Praed, W M —Aylesbury Cole, Viscount—Fermanagh Pringle, A lexander—Selkirksh ire Crompton, S.—Thirsk R oun d , C . G .— E ssex Doum l,s. Sir C. G.—Warwick R oun d . J o h n— M a ld on - nunt—Southampton shaw, Rt. I Ton. F.—Dublin Univer. Duncit - ii, VTs. mindas Hon. T.--..... ich m o nd Sheppard , Tho-nas—Frome " Eliot, hon. J. E.—Roxbu:,:hshire I:snrclair, Sir G.—Caithness-shire Evans, William—North Derby Somerset, Lord G.—Monmouthshire Filmer, Sir E.—West Kent g-insfield, W. R. C.-Huddersfield Freshfield, J. W.—Penryn Style, :j . !r Charles—Scarborough. Gaskell, Jas. M.—Wenlock Sugden, Sir f —Ripon Gore, Ormsby—Salop lennent, J. E.—Oelfist . Goring, H. D.—New Shoreham Th omson, Ri g h t Hofi. C. P.—Man. Greene, Thomas—Lancaster chester Hale, B. R.—Gloucestershire Trevor, Hon. G. R.—Caermarthensh Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed: Turner, \V.—Blackburn Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk Ingham, R. -South Shields Williams, T. Peers—Marlow Inglis, Sir R. H.--Oxford University Wynn, Right Hon. C. W.—Mon Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Bandon Bridge gomcryshire Kelly, Fitzroy—lpswich. Loch, James—Kirkwall Mackenzie, Thomas—Ross-shire Manners, ord C. s.—Leicestershi TELLERS. Graham, Sir James—Pembroke Sibthorp, Colonel—Lincoln MAJORITY—NOES, 1:0 Abercromby, G. R. —Stirlingshire 1 I Lygon, Hon. Colonel H. B.—West Adare, Lord—Glamorganshire Worcestershire Ainsworth, P.—Bolton Lynch, A. H.—Galway Alsager, IL—Surrey Mackenzie, W. F.—Pecblesshire Archbold, 'Robert—Kildare McLeod, IL—lnverness Bailey, Joseph—Worcester McNamara, Maj. W. N.—Clare Co. Bailey, J. D.—Sudbury Maher, Jno.— Wexford Co. Sannerrnan, A.—Aberdeen Marshall, Wm.—Carlisle Barneby, JOhi ...Worcestershire Marton, Oeo.—Lar.caster Bcamish, F. 13.. ..Cork Mauls, Hon. Fox—Elgin Burghs Blackburne, I. J.—Watrin,”on Meynell, Captain H.—Lisburne 131akemore, Richard—WClA Milton, Lord—Malton Bolling, W.—Bolton Nagle, Sir IL—Wecmcath 13rabazon, Sir William—Mayo Co. O'Connell, Daniel—Dublin I3roadley, Henry—East Yorkshire O'Connell, John—Athlone Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield O'Connell, lit J.—Kerry Browne, It. D.—Mayo O'Connell, Morgan—Meath Busfield, W.—Bradford O'Connell, Maurice—Tralee Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co O'Neill, Hon. J. 13. R.—Antrim Clerk, Sir G.—Stamford Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Conolly, Edward M.—Donegal Pechell, Captain—Brighton Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater Peel, Right Hon. Sir R.—Tamworth Craig, W. G.—Edinburghshire Pendarves, E. W.—W. Cornwall Crawford, W.—London Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co. Dalmeny, Lord—Stirling Philips, Mark—Manchestor Denistoun, J.—Glasgow Ponsonby, C. F. A. C.—Poele De Horsey, S. H.—Newcastle-under Power, James—Wexford Co. Lyme: Pryme, George—Cambridge D'lsraeii, B.—Maidstone Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute Divett, Edward—Exeter Redington, T. N.—Dundalk Dunbar, George—Belfast Richards, Richard—Merionethshire Duncombe, T. S.—Finsbury Roche, William—Limerick Pundits, C. W. D.—Flint Rushout, George Bowles—Evesham Eastnor, Viscount—Reigate St. Paul, Horace— Worcestershire Ebrington, Viscount—N. Devon Saddon, Lord—Liverpool Edwards, John—Montgomery Sanford, E. A.—Somersetshire E lice, Capt. A.—Harwich Scholefield, J.—Birmingham Waits, G.—Dublin County Smyth, Sir G. H.—Colchester Feet( a', James Minet—Maidstone Somers, J. P.—Sligo Ferguson, Sir 11. C.—Nottingham Steuart, Robert—Haddington Ferguson, Sir R. A.—Londonderry Stewart, James—Honiton Fergusson, Right Hon. R. C.—Kirk- Strickland, Sir G.—West Yorkshire cudbright Stuart, Henry—Bedford Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. Edm. Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr French, Fitzstephcn—Roscommon Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co. Gillon, Wm. D.—Linlithgow Thornely, Thos.—Wolverhampton Glynne, Sir S. R.—Flintshire Troubridge, Sir T. E.--Sandwich Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield Turner, Edmund—Truro Harvey, D. W.—Southwark Verner, William—Armagh Co. Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co. Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Hawkes, Thomas—Dudley Wakley, Thomas- Finsbury Hayter, W. G.—Wells Walker, IL—Bury, Lancashire Hector, C. J.—Petersfield Wall, C. Baring—Guildford Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham Wallace, Robert—Greenock Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire White, Andrew—Sunderland Houldswortt, T.—Nottinghamshire White, Luke—Longford Houston, G. J.—Renfrewshire Wilbraham, George —Cheshire Howard, P. H.—Carlisle Wilmot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire Irving, John—Antrim Co. Winnington, T. E.—Bewdley James, William... Cumberland Wood, Sir Matthew—London Johnson, W. Augustus—Oldham Wood, G. W.—Kendal Jones, John—Carmartt2enshire Wrightson, W. B.—Northallerton Kemble, H.—West Surrey Yates, J. Ashton—r2arlow Lambton, a—Nor th Durham Lemon, Sir Charles—West Cornwall Lister, E.! CunlitTe—Bradford Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire TELLERS. Campbell, Sir John —Edinburgh Bentinck, Lord W —Glasgow CHURCH EXTENSION IN SCOTLAND.-A pub lic meeting was held 4 Yestertlay at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the pur pose of hearing the Scotch deputation address the English supporters of the Church on the necessity of extending the machinery of the esta blishment in Scotland. Dr. Chalmers was moved to the Chair, after which'Dr. Henderson, of Glasgow, Dr. Glass, from the Isle of Skye, and Dr. Gordon, of Aberdeen, severally addressed the meeting. The Rev. Mr. Munroe, Colonel Grant, Messrs. A. Pownall and J. Labouchere moved and seconded a series of resolutions in favour of the extension of Church accommodation in Scotland. Doctor Chalmers closed the pro. ceedings by alluding to the inefficiency of the Dissenting Churches in Scotland, by proving, from the fact of so many sittings in the Churches being disengaged, the necessity for new Churches, and by calling on the Government to endow Churches, as the only security for religion, and the surest protection against vice and immorality. CHURCH EXTENSION.—A public meeting of the friends of Church Extension was held on Friday in the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, for the purpose of adopting resolutions, to be transmitted to Government, in favour of the endowment of additional places of wor ship in large towns. The Scotsman, speaking of this meeting, says— " The only two speeches of any importance, were those of the Rev. Mr. Guthrie and Mr. James Moncricif, advocate ; and two more miserable exhibitions we have seldom met with. The former gentleman we never saw, and as he has never or rarely appeared in the field of controversy, we certainly had no prejudice against him. Judging from his oratory on Friday, we would say that his intelect is of the narrowest descrip. tion, that his self_conceit is only matched by his ignorance, and that he only fit to address an audience of Hottentots. Mr. Moncreiff, who is yet a very young man, has some reputation for talent, and it does as tonish us to see how many wretched fallacies he put forth, and how piti. fully he first begs the question, by imputing to the Voluntaries opinions they never held, and then triumphs over the demolition of a phantom which is the work of his own hands. The remark applies equally to Dr Chalmers, whose magniloquent sophisms some of the London paper s take the trouble to report." SINGULAR DECEPTION OF A MUTINEER.— One of them pretended to be an idiot, and had so far succeeded in de ceiving the officers, that he was not put in irons like the rest, but merely placed under the charge of the centinel at the cabin-door, where his apparently insane and unmeaning gestures excited the mirth of all but Lord St. Vincent, who immediately read him through and through, and said to him, " I am very much mistaken, if you are not the greatest villain of the whole." The man kept up his disguise until the trial, and even before the Court; but when, in the course of the investigation, some startling facts were elicited, three of the prisoners fell down on their knees and implored for mercy. From that moment, the seeming madmsn shook of all dissi mulation, and resumicg his true character, astonished the Court with his animated countenance, and keenly reproached his ac complices for their meanness and pusillanimity. " For shame!" he said, " is this the way you give yourselves up ?" and then addressing the President, he said, "Sir, I wish to cross-examine that witness." This he did with the greatest ability, and the most remarkable acuteness of observation. In fact, lie proved himself to be a man of superior talent and education, and fully bore out the observations of Mr. I'itt, before referred to, he having been selected from among the rebellion Irish to enter as volunteer into the navy, in order to sow the seeds of re' hellion and mutiny in the fleet, or in any regiment to which he mighi g ain access.—Trenton's Life ofSt. Vincent. In our obituary of this week will be found recorded the demise of an individual whose name is not " unknown to fame" in Westmoreland, and is " familiar as a household word" in our good town of Kendal. We allude to James or Jimmy Wiggins, once " poet lau reate" to the Blues, and a noted enthusiast in the cause of Mr. Henry Brougham, that was, during his contest for this county. Whether Jimmy's penetration into the arcana of Vv'hig-Iladical politics was quickened in his latter years; whether he felt the keen edge of disap pointment when allowed to retire from the political arena without the " big loaf" promised him, in common with others, before the Ex-Chan cellor retired upon his annual pension of 5,0001. ; or whether he was soured on account of his literary productions meeting no remunerating patronage from the great father of the society for the diffbsion of Useless Knowledge, is not ours to divine; but certain it is that, the poet and orator—for Jimmy has thundered with the os rotundans from our forum, " itcrum, iterusn, itertunque"—for some time before his death expressed the most poignant regret that he had ever acquired a laurel in the cause of liberalism.— Westmoreland Gazette. STAINES, MAY 4.—The quiet village of Stan well, near this town, was last Sunday morning nearly the subject of an awful conflagration. Between three and four in the morning the house. keeper of Mr. Samuel Stevens, farmer, was awoke by the appearance of tire. On going to the window she perceived the litter covering the farm yard one sheet of flame. The homestead is situated in the centre of the village. She immediately alarmed Mr. Stevens, who, without loss of time, called up his men servants. Fortunately, other inhabitants of the village were alarmed by the same appearance, and the promptitude with which they rendered their assistance is beyond all praise; they were all workmen, and not lookers-on, and in less than an hour the fire was ex tinguished by means of buckets and a plentiful supply of water from a pond close at hand. In the event of the fire gaining ground the conse queaces must have been most calamitous; the greater part of the village must have been destroyed. The fire had burnt through the sides of a barn, and the wood is actually charred to within two feet of a con. tinuous line of thatched buildings, upwards of 100 feet in extent. The extreme dryness of the thatch, straw, &c., and conti : ;uity to equally combustible buildings, and the wind setting in a direction to continue the mischief, gives rise to an involuntary shudder on contemplating the result. There has hitherto been no clue as to the manner in which the fire o riginated.— Windsor Express. On Saturday morning, about half-past one o'clock, as Police Constab'e, John Davis, No. 192, of the T. Division, was pro. seeding on duty along Albany-street, he discovered a female lying on the pavement writhing in agony. It was evident the poor creature was suddenly taken in labour, and the policeman having procured the assis. tance of a female passing by, repaired to the Station.bouse in Little Albany-street, and procured the stretcher, on which she was conveyed to the University College Hospital, and was in the act of being carried into the Hall when she gave birth to a fine boy, which is now doing well The mother, we regret to state, is considered in great danger. Her name is Margaret Morris, aged 28 years, and she had travelled up. front Shropshire in search of her husband. The Moniteur Parisien states that the man who shot himself a few days ago in a pistol-shooting ground, near Menilmon_ taut, did so from remorse at having changed his religion. lie had paid his addresses some years ago to a widow of the Jewish religion, but only gained her hand on condition of abandoning the Catholic faith for hers. This had ever since preyed on his mind ; and when their first child was born, he had promised his mother that it should be baptized a Christian. His wife, however, would not consent to this, and the ini-,,• cumcized. The same day the unhappy father e• tern to his wife and mother, informic , of this sad resolution, which I, On Wednes'i man was walk; way, on hi train of the ror ,ror / 77 , ANTI-SLAVERY I'EETING AT INIANCHESTEIL (Abridged from the Manchester Guardiet) In compiiance with a r equ i s i t i on, s i gne d b y upwards of .2 50 firms and individuals, the b oroug h reeve and constables, convened a public fleet ing of the inh a bit ants of Manchester, to be held on Thursday wire-nine; last, in the large room of the Town Hall, " to take into coesideratiore the propriety of petitioning Parliament, for the immediate, entire, and , . Utiquidified abolition of the system of negro apprenticeship in the British , coloriteS; and of adopting such measures as may lead to the attainment of that important object." Shortly after eleven o'clock, the borough reeve and Mr. Ferguson, accompanied by a number of gentlemen of the Committee of the Antl-slavery Society in this town, took their places on the platform; amongst them were the Revs. Wm. Marsden, Wm. Nunn, J. A. Coombs, James Griffin, J. Gwyther, Wm. M`Kerrow, John Aldis, F. A. West, and Messrs. J. C. Dyer, C. J. S. Walker, Thomas Harbottle, Samuel Stocks, Thomas Townend, Isaac Crewdson, James Wood, John Scoble, Fowden, &c. John Brown, Esq., borough'. reeve of Manchester, was called to the chair. Mr. James Woon, in moving the first resolution, said, that the Chairman was not the first boroughreeve of Manchester who had done himself honour by convening a town's meeting to consider the claims of the negro. He believed Manchester was the first town in the then King's dominions to call and hold a meeting to petition Parliament to put a stop to that disgraceful and diabolical system, the slave trade. He had been adverse for a long time to the agitation of this question, con. ceiving that a number of the statements which he had heard were highly coloured, and had much lack of truth. He was now bound to say that he had been most awfully mistaken, and that his views had undergone, within the last few weeks, or at all events months, a most serious change indeed. These convictions had not been produced by very alight evidence. it was enough to rouse the feelings of the whole nation from; one end to the e.ther, to think that, after the country had paid twenty millions of money, tine colonial authorities should turn round upon us after taking our money, And give us no quid pro quo, He concluded by moving the resolution. The Rev. J. A. Coombs, of Salford, seconded the resolution, am - 1 said that as a minister of religion he felt thankful for this opportunity of raising a feeble voice, if but for a moment, in opposition to, and denun ciation of, that which the God whom they served in common must regard with infinite detestation. We had paid, to the lasting honour of• Great Britain, some twenty millions of intoey ; but where was the jewel for which we paid so enormous a price —the jewel of " liberty to the captive," and of " the opening of the prison to them that are bound ?" That jewel has been most unrighteously withheld. We needed no fur ther confirmation of this fact, than the admission of Lord Glenelg. His Lordship had introduced a Bill, which, with all his (Mr. (;:Oembee) respect for the law of the land, he was compelled to say, while profess. edly aiming to improve the condition of the apprentice, was a cheat and a mockery, and an unjust and impracticable measure. We disclaimed and denounced it as a mere waste of legislation, and as a mockery of the negro's woes—as a vain attempt to regulate and patch up a system which was essentially and enduringly unjust. They were, therefore, met this day to demand a measure annihilating, at once and for ever, the unrighteous dominion of the white man over the black man.—(Cheers.) Entire and prompt emancipation, they maintained, was as politic to the enslaver as it was just to the enslaved. EDWARD NIGHLINGALE here came forward and said, he had an amend ment to propose. Mr. Nightingale proceeded amidst appeals on the point of order to the chair, and, despite the remonstrances of the bo. roughreeve, to give, what he called, his proofs of white slavery, which consisted in g series of statements as to the wages, clothing, and food of the working population in the district of Colne, of the Spitalfields weavers; of some . 12,000 persons in the county of Mayo, whose case he gave to the meetireg on the authority of a newspaper report of Mr. John Fielden's speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening last. The CHAIRMAN then oatthe first resolution, which wa s carr i e d b y a very large majority; only two or three score of individuals raising their hands against it. Mr. Scouts then addressed the me;ting with much ability, and at great length. He said the abolitionists found themselves involved at this moment in a position of considerable dAeulty; for they saw ar. rayed against them at this time the leaders of the great political sec. tions in the country—a fact which proves that this was not a party question. Sir Robert Peel as the head of the Conservatives, Lord John Russell as the head of the Whig party, and Alr. Joseph Hume as the head of the Radical party —were arrayed against: - the freedem of the negro in the House of Commons, when Sir George .strickland contended for that freedom. Much had been said about there being a contract ; but the British Legislature could not legally make A con. tract; they could only enact laws, and give power to the executive for carrying them into effect. Those laws might be resisted, bui it was at the peril of incurring the penalties attached to their violation. He believed with Mr. Nightingale, that if the people of England had been consulted individually about the twenty millions, not one penny , of it would have been paid. Even Lord Sleaford, the leader of the West Indian party in the House of Lords, repudiated the idea of a con. tract; while the leader of that party in the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone, asserted the existence cf such a contract. He (Mr. Scoble) would not advert to Jamaica; for the question as to that colony had been completely set at rest by Lord Glenclg's Bill, and by the admission of Sir Edward Sugden, that, supposing the existence of such a contract, it had been most shamefully and flagrantly violate(' in Jamaica. By way of specimen of the working of the apprenticeship system, and of the con dition of the negro in the colonies, he would direct the attention of the ine e glng to the Mauritius, to Barbadoes, and to British Guiana. Mr. Scoble then en.'ered into a great variety of details as to Mauritius, the felon planters 0 1 ' which colony, he said, who by the law of England would be doomed to an ;,enominious death, for keeping 50.000 negroes in chains who were entitled to be free on the Ist of August, 1834, had actually received not less than two millions of Briti s h money i n compepsat i on. The twenty-one pints per weekly, of farin aceous f oo d , un d er t h e old system, had been reduced six pints weekly u n d er t h e apprentice.. ship system, in flagrant violation , ;fthe imperial statute. I n th e s h ort period of eleven months he found, by tabular statements whi c h h e h a d drawn himself from Parliamentar y pa,. , ers, no fewer than 14,371 ne. groes, out of a population of 54,000, wesle punished by flogging or otherwise; 7,304 received 135,124 lashes, and 7,067 were punished otherwise in various ways ; so that one in eve r y . eight of all the la bouring population of that colony were flogged, and one jn every four was subjected to flogging or otherwise, to extort labour and enforce su. bordination. With the lapse of the apprenticeship, there wai An accu. mutation of physical torture and degradation,—and increase of Pu nishments in that colony of, more than 100 per cent. Here, then, WAS a clue to that vast decrease in the population of that eoiellY. which had been so frequently complained of. Next, as 10 Barbadoes, which had always claimed for itself a name for hu manity before all other colonial.--( Hear, hear, hear.) After showing that the planters deprived the negroes of their own time to a great ex tent, he stated that in Barbadoes the flogging of females was continued in the workhouses and tread-mills. Women were tied by ligatures to the mill for a period of twelve hours together, without being allowed to come off; one of the women actually perished on the mill, and several others died in consequence of the dreadful treatment to which they were subjected in one of the workhouses; and the inquest of planters who sat upon these murdered females returned a verdict of "died by the visitation of God."—Nay, when the executive of the colony endeavoured to bring the parties guilty of these murders to justice, the grand juries be fore whom the bills were preferred ignored every one of them ; and that had beets the case with respect to every murder perpetrated in Jamaica since the Ist of August, 1834. Why, then, should we trust any longer, in the hand: of men such as these, the destinies of 800,000 of our fellow_ creatures ? Mr. Scoble described his visit to a gaol in Barbadoes, where he found 110 negroes incarcerated in one small room 25 feet by 20 feet ; and on the tread-mill he found twelve men obliged to take SO steps its the minute, the rate of tread-mills in England being only 48 to 50 steps per minute. The second time he visited this mill, he found 12 women upon it; one a mulatto about 30 years old, who, being so exhausted that she was unable to keep step, a negro or; the platform above the wheel seized her by the wrists, and held her over the wheel suspended in such a position, that as the wheel revolved, the steps shattered her knees and legs in the most horrid manner, her blood marking the steps, and during this torture the whip was applied to her person from the nape of the neck to the plant of the foot, she moaning most piteously for mercy. At length her hand dropped upon her shoulder, And she fell into a state of complete insensibility; but she was still held in that posi tion till the spell of the negroes on the wheel was done.—(shame.) He mentioned a similar case of a black girl of 18 years, and said that - the people of England were yet told that the apprenticeship system was working well in Barbadoes. But he would pass to British Guiana, the pet colony of the colonial office and the planters. 1 t was on the cast coast of South America, comprehending indeed the three colonies of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice ; and was the most splendid of our slave colonies, being calculated to sustain a population of 3,000,000. The planters were bound by the act to make a faithful return of the slaves, di vided into two classes, predials and non-predials; but he found, during his residence in these colonies, that upon every plantation the slaves of every class were all regarded as predials, by which perjury thousands had been robbed of their liberties for a period of two years. And let it not be supposed that the estates of Mr. Gladstone were free from these charges; for all the domestic slaves on his estates had beef: regarded as predials. He hoped that, at all events, Mr. Gladstone would do justice to the non.predials, and say, " Let them go free from the Ist of Au_ gust," if he still retained his grasp upon the predials on his plantations. There had been a most fearful waste of life in this colony, exhibiting a decrease of 23,000 some hundreds in fifteen years, in a population which slid not amount in 1817 io more than 110,000 negroes ; and this de crease was over and above ail the births. It was the intention of the Legislature that the negroes shos:lol work for the planters 45 hours a-week, viz.:—five days of nine hours tach, and that they should have the Se. turday to themselves; but the p l anters :2 :id scattered the 45 hours over the six days, and thus robbed the negroes of their Saturday, and they were actually working them as many hours trts.' kl Y now as during she. very. The allowance in slavery of twenty-one pin:: of farinaceous food weekly had been reduced to ten pints, and all ti;f-' free children (there were 10,000 in this colony) had been thrown upon their parents for support. Formerly, a slave family of five persons was entitled to receive 72 pinta of this food in this colony ; now, supposing all the five to be apprentices, their allowance was only 35 pints; if one of Went was free, only no ; if two, only 25. He found the punishments flitted on the slave population in British Guiana were 11 per cent., and that the balance in this respect was actually in favour of Jamaica. But much had been said in Parliament in praise of the hospitals for Pick lie. groes, the attention paid them, and the wine, &c. with which they were supplied if they needed it. He would give an instance of these sick 'lenses, which had come under his own eyes, in British Guiana. He visited, in company with a special justice, a very large estate on the side of the Demerara river, supposed to be one of the finest estates on that side of the river. In one apartment they found 16 men lying or sitting upon raised boards, without mat or mattress, or covering of any kind, save the clothes which they wore when they entered : and in one niche was a dying negro, in a state of delirium. All these were locked up together during the whole of the twenty-four hours. One of these negroes complained to the justice, that they only allowed him a little rice in a cailtsesh, and would not let his friends give him any better food. In Another room they found an equal number of women, all of them suffering frein diseases; but he particularly noticed one female, emaciated, worn to a skeleton by disease, resting with her back to one of the iised boards on which the other females were lying, and looking the very picture of despair. id one arm she had a little infant, and in the other hand she held a calibash with a small quantity of cold rice in it. When the justice asked the females, " Have you any thing to, say tome ?" She exclaimed, " Yes, Massa," pointing to her withered bosom, " You see me no able to give pickaninny any thing. Me brought plaint ain powder to make pap for pickaninny in sick house ; but overseer took it away, and pickaninny no able to eat cold boiled rice. "—(Shame !) Mr. 6' ladsone talked to us of the wine and other delicious things given to the negroes in sick houses; but the scene just described, he (Mr. Scale) saw in out of Mr. Glad. stone's own plantations--(Shame) —the plantation Wales, in the dis. triet Demerara. He could give the meeting many other peal - sitars respecting the sick houses or that gentleman ; he could tell them of the cruelties p4petrated upon his estate; he could, in short, confute all `' - '"aolstone had made in the 'a in British _,-.,''' i I i